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I am looking for exceptional postdocs to join my Optimization and Machine Learning Lab at KAUST (richtarik.org/i_team.html)! Apply for the #KAUST Global Fellowship! In addition, upload your files here: apply.interfolio.com/105097 KAUST Artificial Intelligence @ KAUST KAUST Research

I am seeking two highly motivated predocs to work on reinforcement learning theory. The position is for 6 months with a possible extension. Prerequisites: a solid background in real analysis, probability theory, reinforcement learning, and optimization theory. Deadline: 19th May.

A paper titled ​'Risk Estimation in Markov Cost Process: Lower and Upper Bounds,' coauthored by Gugan Thoppe (Gugan Thoppe), Prashanth L A, and Sanjay Bhat, has been accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2310.11389

The paper 'Online Learning of Weakly Coupled MDP Policies for Load Balancing and Auto Scaling,' by Eshwar R., L. Felipe, A. Reiffers, D. Menasche, and G. Thoppe, will appear in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2024 Conference proceedings.

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The Algorithms group at IISc is looking to recruit multiple PhD students in this cycle (starting August 1). The deadline to apply for the same is April 8.

Research areas include approximation/online algorithms, algorithmic game theory, theoretical ML, computational geometry,

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I am looking for two highly motivated Ph.D. students to work on reinforcement learning and federated learning theory. These positions would be supported in part by the Indo-French Cefipra grant (cefipra.org/csrp-project/). Please apply before 8th April 2024.

Thanks, ACM India, for this honor. I look forward to opportunities to give talks in exciting places, meet many students, and get them interested in the theory of machine learning.

Announcing the STCS Vigyan Vidushi 2024: the programme aims to provide participants exposure to contemporary topics in theoretical computer & systems sciences, and also to promote research in CS as a career among women. For more details, visit tcs.tifr.res.in/~stcs-vv-24/

“I’m not able to learn mathematics easily, I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite these handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things.”

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Congratulations to Prof. Talagrang on winning the 2024 Abel prize. His reaction is so humbling.

Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Ankur Naskar, for winning the SERB-Purdue overseas visiting doctoral fellowship 2024. He is my second student to win this fellowship after Swetha Ganesh, who won it in 2023.
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PhD at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France (Incub IMT Atlantique) on ``Distributed Learning with Adversaries' jointly supervised by Prof. Alexandre Reiffers (@alreiff) and me.

Last date for Application: 8th April 2024.

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PhD at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France (Incub IMT Atlantique) on ``Distributed Learning with Adversaries' jointly supervised by Prof. Alexandre Reiffers (@alreiff) and me.

Last date for Application: 8th April 2024.

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